Ninja turtles are all the rage. I know both of my boys wish they could be a ninja turtle. If you too have a little ninja turtle fan, whip up one of these beanies with masks. This is a quick pattern, and even if you are new to crochet it shouldn’t be too difficult. You only need to know how to single crochet and double crochet, which we have in our video tutorials!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Beanie with Mask Pattern

Materials:

*Note that you may use any beanie pattern you wish. This specific beanie pattern is intended to be large, it fits my pre-teen fine and is snug on me. Not intended to be a hat worn for warmth, but as a costume hat for play. Enjoy!

Beanie in LARGE child size:

Make a magic circle, 10 dc in ring, sl st to join. (10)
Row 1: ch-2, 2 dc in each st (20)
Row 2: ch-2, *2 dc in first, 1 dc in next* repeat around, join with sl st (30)
Row 3: ch-2, *2 dc in first, 1 dc in next 2 sts* repeat around, join with sl st (40)
Row 4: ch-2, *2 dc in first, 1 dc in next 3 sts* repeat around, join with sl st (50)
Row 5: ch-2, *2 dc in first, 1 dc in next 4 sts* repeat around, join with sl st (60)
Row 6: ch-2, dc in each st around, join with sl st (60)
***if you would like a smaller hat, you may want to skip rows 7 and 8***
Row 7: ch-2, *2 dc in first, 1 dc in next 9 sts* repeat around, join with sl st (66)
Row 8: ch-2, *2 dc in first, 1 dc in next 10 sts* repeat around, join with sl st (72)
Rows 9-15: ch-2, dc in each st around, join with sl st. fasten off and weave in end.*you can make this as long or as short as you like. I like it to be a little longer so that the mask portion better covers the eyes.

For the mask and with your second color:

Row 1: Ch-50. Find the middle of the beanie, and fold in half with the seam in the middle. To the FRONT side, attach with a sc, sc in the next 29 sts, ch-51. (131)

Row 2: sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each across. Ch-1. Turn.
Row 3: sc in each st across. Ch-1. Turn.
Row 4: sc in first 55 sts. Ch-11, sk 8 sts, attach with a sc in the next st. sc in next 3 sts. ch-11, sk 8 sts, attach with a sc in the next st and sc in each across. ch-1. Turn.
Row 5: sc in first 54 sts. sk next st (pictured below). sc 15 times around your ch-11 from the previous row. sk next st. sc in next 2 sts. Sk next st, sc 15 times around the second ch-11 from the previous row. sk next st and sc in each st to end. Ch-1. Turn.
Row 6: sc in first 53 sts, sk 2 sts, sc in next 14, sc in next 2 sts, sc in next 14, sk next 2 sts, sc in each remaining st across. Ch-1. Turn.
Row 7: sc in each st to end. Fasten off and weave in ends.

That’s it! Cowabunga!

When you tie the ends of your beanie, make sure to tie it higher up on the head. Sometimes it can fall down and give the whole mask a droopy look, and we don’t want that! If you have any questions be sure to ask!

Comments

What a great pattern! Thanks for sharing! I am working on my own mask/beanie pattern and have been playing around with different eye holes, and I love yours!!! Would you mind if I link to your pattern during this step of my “girly beanie with roll up mask” pattern? Thank you!

I wanted to make this for a small child, made the beanie, now I'm wondering do I need to make mask smaller too but new to crocheting and not sure how exactly to do that. My beanie is only 60 stitches around not 72.

Yes. I watched video. It should be 130 on PDF. Also when you skip 2 in middle of mask the PDF says to sc 2. I followed the video. :). Thanks for the pattern! I love it and will make a bunch for the Magic Yarn Project.

LOVE this beanie! It is so darn cute! I am making it for my 8 year old cousin, but I am a little concerned about the how large it is. Just to be clear, you used a h (5.0 mm) hook and this pattern is in us terms right? Thanks for the pattern!!

I always feel like the rings aren't right when I do them. Am I supposed to chain two to start each row? I wasn't sure if it's assumed to chain two before a dble crochet, or to do it only if the pattern specifically asks for it.

I was asking for the rows in the hat. Is it supposed to spiral? My first two rounds, after the magic circle, spiraled together. I could start over, but I decided to chain two to make the rounds the same height and then join with a sl

Hi there!
Thanks for posting a free pattern for this cute hat! I tried it and it turned out HUGE! I don't know what I did wrong. Was 17 rows a typo? In your picture it looks more like 13 for the beanie part? Also, what does "sc 15 times around your ch-11" mean? I don't understand how you crochet 15 around 11. I'm pretty new to this, so maybe I just don't know the lingo yet. Thanks in advance for any help. Karen

Hi! You can do as many rows as you like. What kind of yarn are you using? My 17 rows fits my 8 year old well, and it is tight on me. I'm wondering if your yarn or hook is larger than mine? On the sc 15 around the chain, you are actually crocheting around the eye opening, not IN each ch. If you look at the bottom of the eye opening, you'll see that they don't go through the ch from the previous row. Putting 15 sc around the chain of 11 makes the eye open up more and pull it down to make the eye opening larger. Does that help?

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